NetEase rolled out Marvel Rivals version 20260917 on September 17, 2026 at 09:00 UTC, and it went out with no server downtime. The patch notes lead with new Moon Knight story content and a pair of events built around Jeff the Land Shark having a very bad night.
The Details
The story addition is a new Moon Knight lore entry called New Moon Rising, paired in the store with a Moon Knight Eternity Knight bundle. Also new to the store: a Gwenpool chroma for the Jeff-Pool costume, and the Rogue and Gambit X-Men ’97 Season 2 MVPs, which are now officially live and folded into their existing bundles at unchanged prices. NetEase notes that players who already owned everything in those bundles receive the matching MVPs automatically at no cost.
Two events run off the same premise. After a pajama party, Jeff falls into a nightmare, and the heroes split up to investigate. In Jeff’s Dream Eater, Daredevil stays inside the dream using his radar sense to collect Jeff’s scattered thoughts and trace the source of the nightmare. Completing it awards Venom’s President Ozzy costume and its related bundle content for free, with premium unlocks covering Rogue’s Slumber Sugah and Jeff the Land Shark’s Shark in Sheep’s Clothing. It runs until October 15. The second, Jeff’s Superstar Search, sends the rest of the cast to Times Square and Hellfire Bay Beach to collect Stars for a Spray, Title, and Nameplate, and closes a week earlier on October 9.
Pop & Win is spotlighting Jubilee’s Vampy Jammies and Magneto’s Master of Slumber at a discount through October 16. The most broadly useful change is quieter: PYO bundles now support gifting, purchased with Lattice, with the price scaling to the cosmetics selected.
What This Means for Players
The free Venom costume is the thing to prioritize, because it is tied to event completion rather than a paywall, and the Dream Eater event closes before the Pop & Win window does. If you only have time for one, do that one first.
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When and Where
Version 20260917 is live now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S. No download-triggered downtime was required.